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| This is what you must do: fight the battle! This is not too much to ask of | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to rejoice. Sing Glory Hallelujah, for the first battle is won, the first step toward the unification | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| resistance against the recognitions. In this phase the battle is to overcome the resistance and to nevertheless | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| come to you, so that you can do battle with your lower self, since no one can | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| realize that first you have to go to battle with your lower self; you have to enlist | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| tremendous, but only while you are in the battle. Afterward will come the realization that you have | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in one day. It is sometimes a hard battle and you should know what you are letting | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| compared to it. You will emerge from this battle not only victoriously, but also a great deal | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| same person you were before you entered this battle. And then God will help you further along | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Ask God for the strength to win the battle. All you have to do is to think | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| that you will know how to win your battle and follow your call. Only then will you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this aside, you should be prepared to do battle with it every time anew. After a time | 21 THE FALL |
| ones. You will need willpower and self-discipline to battle all your faults, which can never happen by | 21 THE FALL |
| is impossible -- then I will have my battle with you and I will recognize God's laws | 22 SALVATION |
| task were really to be fulfilled, then the battle could take place. Should Lucifer lose the battle | 22 SALVATION |
| battle could take place. Should Lucifer lose the battle, then Christ could make His terms and Lucifer | 22 SALVATION |
| number of specialized spirits He fought a spiritual battle in the world of darkness. That spirits should | 22 SALVATION |
| and in the world of darkness. After the battle was over, new conditions were set up. They | 22 SALVATION |
| there was a danger point also in the battle of the heavens, parallel to the height of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the path, you have won half the battle already, and even more, my friends! If you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| realize one thing. When I spoke about the battle and said, fight, I meant just that. It | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| these various shortcomings with your problem, half the battle is won. If you do not as yet | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| follow it through and it will mean doing battle with yourself. But if you sincerely surrender your | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to change? And then prepare yourself for the battle. Take your time with it; do not do | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it stands now, humanity is often forced to battle against forces that abuse free will and divine | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you cultivate these thoughts and feelings, continuing to battle with your lower self that always wants to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| exactly that. But in order to win the battle, you also have to learn depth prayer, depth | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| times. The disconnection is necessary; it provokes a battle on your part to attain victory again. Every | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| aware of it, you can wage a healthy battle with your ignorance and resistance. Only you yourself | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| questions when you feel this resistance and this battle in you. I speak to all of you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that which you cannot alter. The more you battle against all that you cannot change -- which | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| learned from it -- by giving up the battle against it, relaxing inwardly, and concentrating on the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| find out which is right, never winning the battle because both concepts are false. In every child's | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| integrated; the male and female qualities do not battle with one another, but sustain, complement, and help | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Due to the unconscious nature of the inner battle, the outer happening responds to your unconscious negative | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| yet unable to apply this truth. If the battle you are fighting is not consciously understood in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and acknowledge the negative side you so bravely battle against. This side will cause you trouble until | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| do not have to be ashamed that this battle is going on in you. It is to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to your credit. But you will fight the battle much more effectively by allowing it to enter | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| occur. Because once the negative side of your battle has become conscious, it will lose power. But | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is an enigma, and vice versa. They both battle along in their separate worlds. The only way | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the surface. But actually two conflicting desires battle with one another deep within: the conscious wish | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religion and some philosophies teach? This is the battle in you that contains all other doubts, such | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is found, the most difficult part of the battle is over. It will then be relatively easy | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| resist in turn. This hopelessly futile and exhausting battle cannot be eliminated unless one person changes the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you are unconsciously fighting an unnecessary and tragic battle. You think you have to be opposed to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| merely become more conscious of them now. This battle has been going on since time began. As | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| times. And it is necessary. It demands a battle on your part to attain victory again. Every | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| pain and suffering must result. But once this battle is successfully concluded, the real person is resurrected | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| becoming united. In spite of these attempts, the battle still rages between fundamentalism and liberalism. Just this | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| It is on this deeper level where the battle between the opposites is waged. The battle creates | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the battle between the opposites is waged. The battle creates a tremendous confusion in your life. This | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| truth into falsehood is part of the great battle between the forces of light and the forces | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is unknown to you. This is the great battle between another pair of opposites. One is the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| both good and bad, as long as you battle against this badness and believe you cannot tolerate | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| underneath the pretense there is a need to battle against recognizing the falsity of the idealized self-image | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| reason for such resistance, deep down you all battle against giving up the glory of your idealized | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not as a theory, but as an observable battle within yourself. You will consequently gain an entirely | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| tendency is hidden. Because of this raging inner battle between such mutually exclusive aims and solutions, the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| only when it becomes conscious. But unconsciously you battle against this very awareness, wishfully thinking in your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| doubt about it. It will be quite a battle to find this level of rebellion, bitterness, hostility | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| level of rebellion, bitterness, hostility, and aggression. This battle is caused by resistance to giving up the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the signs of your own resistance and consciously battle against it. You recognize the evasion and the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you do not accept the impossibility; you still battle against it. As this suspicion and your anger | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| often hinges on completely illusory circumstances. So you battle against something that does not exist and forfeit | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| will be a disadvantage of some sort. Your battle, your severe reaction, is partly due to trying | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| unconscious belief. Set about finding it, and your battle will cease. Because you ignore this, you are | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| impatience at the delay engages you in a battle with yourself which heightens the fear of giving | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| instance, it is the answer of why you battle against giving up the sick, the erroneous solution | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| pattern because you have made certain recognitions, a battle begins. You may do it, but you don't | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| make oneself understood is present, half of the battle is over. I do not think that any | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| fight constructively by understanding the source, so you battle one of the many symptoms instead of the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the temptation to evade yet again. As you battle through this phase and grow stronger, you will | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you faced yourself. At the same time you battle against that which truly cannot be changed. All | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Both claims are distorted and unrealistic. Thus a battle evolves that overshadows the potential for a real | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| this hidden conviction against which they may erroneously battle with an over-assertiveness -- which, of course, is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| one does not understand. This is half the battle. Let each person pronounce what may be intellectually | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Once you understand this you have won another battle, my friends, for then you will see how | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| control; how you destroy relationships through a mutual battle for control, each one acting as though it | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to come. This is one side of the battle. Now what is the other? The concept of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| have a chance to win in this tragic battle. You will liberate yourself from the false conscience | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| longing was wrong, and again the adult will battle against these feelings. The healthy longing of the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| recognize the existence of the need. Therefore you battle against recognizing the displacement -- or if you | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| it that we, on this earth, have to battle against this great unknown? At first glance, such | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| to the most crucial point of transition, the battle against it is equally crucial. The temptation to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| through yourself, and within yourself. This is the battle that leads from blind reflexes that every single | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| pinpoint it. Finding it is winning half the battle. You cannot make a decisive switch before first | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| consider this as a problem in you, you battle against it, trying in your own way to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| create real problems. The predicament against which you battle is a nonsensical idea, for others are not | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| as well as the nonexistent problem that you battle against. Then, and then only will your blocks | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and the pretense must be given up. A battle rages in the face of this decision. It | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to give up destructiveness, you will find a battle within you. You will find a greater fear | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| of your dualistic outlook but the ensuing inner battle gives you the cramped inner movement that debilitates | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| good, productive, and joyful? This is the tragic battle of humanity. On the one hand, you are | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you? Why do you resist the good and battle to maintain painful struggle and insoluble conflict? Why | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| exists in your facade. Only when this first battle is won can the destructive currents be let | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| suffer an unfulfillment, you hesitate and often even battle against recognizing it. For recognizing it would be | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| often believe themselves further advanced than those who battle with the actuality of their negation. Now, my | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of this part of creation. The perennial human battle is holding on to the outer ego-faculties because | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that anyone can love you. In this inner battle you cannot win. You do want to hit | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This is where you are inwardly locked in battle. The more you face these feelings, the more | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more real. Again and again, you have to battle your way through periods where you are thrown | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| state without being in the new one. Each battle indicates another milestone that makes the attainment of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| distorted personality will consider one as good and battle against the other as evil. These examples should | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| may also resist reconsidering this self-perception. You still battle what is and insist on being the way | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| truth, the other side battles it. In that battle your reaction becomes even more painful: greater dissension | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of the painful reaction is produced because you battle yourself as you are and do not succeed | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| it by being always in a state of battle. Shrinking from it, you fight against it in | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| emptiness which, in turn, gives rise to the battle against one's own inner processes. By instituting death | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| independence cannot be conveyed to those who still battle against it. Often, when people sense that there | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| human beings, whether or not they know it, battle with it. It is a typical dualistic confusion | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of you who have recently found this raging battle within yourselves will know exactly what I am | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| oblivious of the fact that this very same battle rages in them; that this battle has created | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| very same battle rages in them; that this battle has created the instinctual restrictions and fear, the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| there any questions? QUESTION: I feel a terrific battle going on right now in relation to my | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| patient and unanxious, unhurried and unworried. Otherwise your battle against your own fear of pleasure will consciously | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pleasure must be made conscious in order to battle it. One of the first obstructions to look | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| in your mind, in your feelings. When the battle goes on unbeknownst to your conscious mind, it | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| work through the chain reactions, my friends, the battle will at first be enormous. To make the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the positive chain reaction seems impossible. In this battle you have to consider that there is another | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| but sometimes not, there will be a fluctuating battle between you and others on the unconscious levels | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| in this sphere of duality where you must battle with the opposites -- pleasure and pain, life | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| becomes embroiled in a special kind of inner battle. On the one hand there will be self-annihilation | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| do not know who you are and blindly battle against what you hate in yourself -- either | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your conscious mind may refute this desire and battle against acknowledging it, let alone ousting it. As | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| let alone ousting it. As long as this battle continues in the unconscious, the conscious wish will | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| wish will be impotent. At best, it will battle against the unconscious counterforce, vacillating between the two | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| residual pool. But those who still have to battle within their own masks and defenses, with their | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| are any areas within me where I still battle and defend against either the painful or the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| inflicts on others, you are caught in a battle of blame, self-justification, helplessness, self-rejection and self- doubt | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| have progressed beyond the initial stages where you battle with your own false ideas that always create | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| investment in doing so must be. In that battle it is always either the other person or | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| reaction, you can truly risk this event and battle it through so that an open exchange of | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| they are negative, but you still have to battle with yourself in order to fully perceive to | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| of rationalization you use, it is a tremendous battle for you to fully assume responsibility and to | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| a point when you have won this particular battle. At this stage you can wholeheartedly embrace and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| articulated in your consciousness. Some of you still battle in this phase. The last phase is the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| motivating force. For you constantly fluctuate in a battle between wanting to move and follow the longing | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| force that tips the scale of the inner battle between movement and stagnation, between reality and illusion | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| from the inner will. The conscious mind may battle against the inner decision and contract against its | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the outer personality uses its life force to battle the inner decision. At times, the decision of | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| may allow the outer self to keep the battle going to some extent so that the soul | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| inner movement into divine reality. Some form of battle is always required to make you understand the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the human shell of blindness, you have to battle against the as yet unrealized and undeveloped aspects | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| see that you have chosen not to do battle with it. You have just given in and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| spark, all its inherent godliness. It has to battle its way through the darkness and distortion that | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| to your conscious mind. Your instinct is to battle against disorder and imbalance. Yet it is precisely | 228 BALANCE |
| you the opportunity to give up the outer battle, the outer insistence, and to go into an | 228 BALANCE |
| her, take the blame for her mistakes, and battle with the hardships of life. She wanted to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| one hand, you resent and envy leadership and battle against it in others; on the other hand | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| themselves. They must come, no matter how you battle against them. The more you battle against them | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| how you battle against them. The more you battle against them, the more rigid you will become | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of all opposites. You no longer need to battle them. So, for example, you know your own | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| only to lose it again, so that your battle and search may be repeated again and again | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| in the scheme of all things: the great battle between the forces of good and the forces | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to discuss total surrender to God. You all battle with this central question. The resistance to follow | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of an outer drama and vice versa. Every battle within the human soul between the forces of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| stages of development. Every personality goes through this battle within himself or herself; every personality experiences it | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| in larger issues that also represent the universal battle between good and evil. The individual's role in | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| good and evil. The individual's role in this battle -- on whatever level it takes place -- | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| not allow yourself to become enmeshed in this battle: do not unwittingly lend yourselves as tools for | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| deep despair. Your dual nature is in constant battle here. One part strongly aims for covering, justifying | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| ever present, painful polarity against which you constantly battle. You often use the word surrender. You sense | 254 SURRENDER |